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Over the the past decade, close to a hundred people have lost their lives in the canal network of one northern English city. In this episode, we examine evidence, which suggests that a significant number of these deaths were the work of one person, the Manchester Pusher.
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In fact I remember walking home at 11.30pm after a good night out and seeing a teen with an AC/DC jacket on looking lost. I asked him if he was lost and he said he'd been at an AC/DC concert in town and got lost, missed his last bus. I took him a short distance home to my aunt and we gave him £5 for taxi fare and rang him a taxi to get home. His parents came the next day to thank us for looking after their son. They were welcome. That is what good folk do for their fellow man and woman. We should all look after each other.
Bless you for your kindness. You're right, our world could use a lot more kindness these days.
You are a true gentleman man. This is the right thing that should be done in these cases.
This should be a norm, not something that's practically unknown nowadays. Le sigh...
Wat if he had been the pusher???
Well that never happened in Manchester UK!
I live in Manchester and this has been on the minds of people for years now. CCTV show the victims often walking frantically as if trying to lose someone. Stay away from the canals if you're drunk and if you're alone.
I remember one of the bars in the area around Deansgate that had posters and leaflets everywhere reminding people to avoid walking near the canals at night. There were also volunteers walking around with high-vis jackets offering to escort people away from the canals.
Alternately get into the habit of carrying. I never leave home without my firearm.
@@phuchu That's very illegal in Britain.
@@diabolicwave7238 Then it's a good thing I don't live in Britain. I'd never live anywhere that makes it illegal to defend yourself.
@@phuchu I disagree with the necessity of firearms for self defense personally (at least in Britain). It is legal to defend yourself, just not typically with lethal force (which a gun does fall under). That said, I'm not gonna say your reasons for thinking firearms are necessary is wrong, and I hope to god you never have to use yours to keep yourself safe.
@@diabolicwave7238 Like I said: It's not legal to actually defend yourself in Britain. Lethal force is always warranted if one is being assaulted, because there is no telling who the assailant is, what they are capable of, or what weapons they have on them.
You also have to consider people who might not be able to fight due to disability or simply old age. There was a recent incident in Greenford where a pensioner in a mobility scooter was murdered on the street by a knife wielding maniac. If the the elderly man had a gun, he very well might still be alive. It's incidents like that (and the rising random assaults on Orientals) that I made my elderly mother get a gun, take a safety course, and do regular (monthly) target practise, so I wouldn't have to worry about her so much.
That said, every responsible gun owner hopes that they never have to use their guns against another person, but we also know it is better to have a gun and not need it than to not have a gun and need it. I just hope that you are never in a situation where you need to defend yourself, or your loved ones, from bigger, multiple, and/or armed assailants.
I live in Manchester and i stay away from the canals when I'm pissed up
Good idea. My eldest went to Manchester Uni, she's smart plus it tends to be men, so would be more worried if I were you :)
Very wise indeed.
james poole Manchester Men! Yum!
@@Funckle73 hahah! Mmmm mmmm!
Absolutely, canals and rivers seem to be magnets for unlucky drunks.
My son told me he was having a night out in Manchester recently, my response was to Send him a link about the Manchester pusher and warn him to take care, he thinks I'm odd at the best of times, but i felt I needed to put him wise about this a a parent. I feel for the parents of these poor young men. I hope they get some answers one day. Great work as always, glad you covered this.
It could be a woman manipulating these young men somehow too...
@@deadarmd No, its the canals themselves. So polluted and corrupted, filled with hatred for humanity, the canals have decided to seek revenge upon the diseased masses of Manchester.
@@Aconitum_napellus Manchester always seemed a bit like Soddam
@@deadarmd let's keep religion to ourselves
In that story the best people God saved are a man who was willing to offer his daughters to a rape mob
And two daughters that date raped their own father
@@ksoundkaiju9256 sheesh. Cheer up pal, soddam may have been in the Bible, but I wasn't speaking of "religion".
Besides, what would happen to me, censorship? They don't care if you talk about Christianity.
I've lived in Manchester all my life, I cannot understand why anyone would want to walk along the canal tow paths at night time. They're grim places during daylight hours, particularly the network around the city centre! Unfortunately people put themselves at risk especially when they've been drinking. Whilst some deaths may have been accidents, there are too many sinister accounts to dismiss them all as misadventure. My condolences go to all the families that have lost loved ones in the waterways around Manchester and I hope eventually they get some answers.
With good trail lights on a mountain bike it's actually a rather exhilarating experience. If there was some wierdo lurking in the shadows I would be able to see them probably 100m away because the lights are so intense they light up everything and even blind anyone caught in the beam. Mostly though the only beings I ever saw were hundreds of rats!
No way in hell would I be out late in Manchester with how dodgy it is. I don't even drink anyway
The Pusher is basically a "he who must not be named" situation for the police. Grew up in Salford, the canals are vast and complex, I wouldn't be shocked if there's victims that were never found as there's numerous canals that stretch under ground too in Manchester and its surrounding towns/cities. I definitely think there's a serial killer lurking amongst us. The canals are a scary and lonely place to be during the day, let alone at night. My heart goes out to the victims and their families.
Melbourne fixed this issue with our river by putting government subsidised rented shop fronts along the problem areas, and using the revenue from the lowered rents to pay directly for the construction and active monitoring of surveillance cameras along the whole shore.
Since small and trial run businesses were suffering and unable to test their product lines or operate niche stores, and various arts groups were without premises, this helped take care of two problems at once.
I honestly believe this was not the work of one man, I'm from Salford and have heard of numerous stories from all over the canal network of people being pushed in all miles apart, people forget how big the canal network/waterways/rivers are around Greater Manchester, it's not just the inner city.
@@RUNDNB85 I seem to remember that at a certain point some coroner came up with testing one of the canal victims for ghb and it came out positive, so could be that at least some of the victims are targeted before they come near the canals, while they are still in the pub. Them being drugged or already dead would explain why they are found deceased in such shallow water and why people don notice anything happening.
David Paulides talked about these canal deaths, there are more strange details surrounding these cases.
Don't know if this is related to the similar cases in Manchester or in the USA, but I know of a girl in the Netherlands who was found alive in a canal with ghb in her blood, she said she didn't remember what happened.
I live near the sea and in all the years of partying and drinking no one ever got in trouble in the water, which is deeper than a canal. And believe me drunk and drugged they were, and many stupid thing were done. So I find it weird that so many people would manage to drown in a shallow canal under the same circumstances. A few ok, but not this many in a specific timeperiod all of a sudden.
unt you’re right it’s happening all over the country.I’m in West Yorkshire and we’ve had a few men found dead in water over the years too.
Thats a great theory actually. The Pusher doses potential victims drinks in bars. Surely the Police have considered that though. @@vvv3055
@@vvv3055 I'm not far from the City Centre, I do not buy the explanation that these guys are accidentally falling in and the pusher part is very flawed I find, Honestly most of the areas bodies are pulled from, It isn't deep enough and even without all their faculties about them as sharp as normal, They'd feel their feet hit the bottom and stop panicking.
Also, a lot are simply found in the water yet having been missing for far longer than their bodies have been in the water along with drowning not being the COD, This part alone suggests to me that they are possibly targeted, Isolated from friend's if they are on a night out and then somehow they are taken/abducted and held somewhere first against their will (obviously) for reasons I do not know, Heck only knows what is done to them whilst they are missing and then when the person or I'd personally guess more like a group of people that are organized and carrying out this dark, fucked up stuff have finished with their victim, They are executed in some manner and then dumped or placed into the water.
I'm not saying that is the fate of all these floaters turning up but We all know how sick and depraved the human mind can get, Let's say a group of such people were to get together and bond over getting off on and away torturing then murdering fellow human beings...I can not say that is the case with any sort of certainty but due to all the oddities that surround many of these cases, That is a very plausible scenario which sadly makes far more sense than a lone pusher or so much bad luck.
This world is not shy of no good scum, Ugly characters and social media, for example, would be an ideal platform for sick fucks to meet like-minded sick fucks, Those that use TOR and the "dark web" for example, I'm sure there are plenty of real pieces of work that lurk there and into a lot of twisted stuff which regular people wouldn't ever think about.
Anyway all the best and same to all. Dean, Greater Manchester
@@vvv3055 But the police have already said there is no pusher, they were all investigated, all tragic coincidences, thats the police line not mine.
I remember reading once how a psychologist said the pusher is likely the work of a serial killer or group and the police were very very quick to claim otherwise while at the same time, saying they know nothing about who's responsible. I personally think they're aware of exactly who's doing it.
I was thinking serial killer too.
@@abf2062 I'm guessing it's like the Bermuda Triangle. Lots of bad things happened, but for the most part aren't connected. It's like taking pieces of 3 broken beer bottles and trying to make a single whole object out of them. It gets weird fast since you're trying to force things to fit where they don't. Some cases might be murder, some might be drunks stumbling and drowning. "Well that's never happened before!" isn't a reason to say it didn't happen this time. placing a full bowl of soup on a table properly 20 times in a row doesn't mean it's impossible for you to drop it on try 21.
The pusher....IS THE QUEEN bum don dunnnnnn......
The police have no interest as the victims are classed as Expendable.
Why would the police be covering for a serial killer lol come on use your head
14:24 "Is there a strange syndrome that causes men to completely disregard the dangers that await them?"
Yes, it's called alcohol and being drunk.
If someone is looking for victims to push into the water intoxicated people would be at a severe disadvantage since alcohol causes the body to release heat, meaning the icy waters would affect them much faster
I agree. If you have to be blotto to enjoy yourself, you're the problem, not the Pusher.
I had an older Dutch friend who told me how they would push drunken German soldiers into the canals in Amsterdam while they were having a piss. Their cries usually brought help but they would die a week later of typhus. The Germans chalked it up to intoxication and didn't take reprisals.
itsjohndell lol what a guy
So getting drunk is worse than murder? You must be kidding.
Excellent artwork as always. The most frightening case has to be the David Plunkett one, it was reported he was screaming and howling. It is odd how in some of these cases the victims walk in the opposite direction to where they should be walking, as if they are under some compulsive spell. David Paulides has quite alot of tales of young college men found dead in water in the US and the strangest one has to be Henry Mccabe (though not a college boy) he too was making terrible noises whilst on the phone to his wife and later found dead in water. He had no injuries and yet had sounded as if he was being tortured. Thanks, another great vid with fantastic narration and detail.
It happened to me but i survived. I was thrown out of nightclub , walked a mile in wrong direction in a daze along canel and somehow ended up in the water , i only came out of the daze when i hit the water. I managed to get out but immediately lost consciousness. Awoke early and cold and a passerby phoned for an ambulance. I was very lucky to survive.
@@robdee81 Thank goodness you survived, sounds really scary and disorientating, wow! Don't know if you have heard of author Steph Young but she documents these strange water deaths and mentions quite alot of cases where people are thrown out of clubs and for some inexplicable reason walk in the opposite direction, they are seen on cctv before disappearing from sight. She has a podcast somewhere on youtube about this. Glad you are ok👍.
Thanks im only just finding out about this and its chilling how i was almost one of them . To this day i have no idea why i would of gone there. A few years after the incident a friend from school drowned in Huddersfield canel , he was found with drugs in his system but not enough to significantly impair him said the coroner . I can link a newspaper article about his case if interested ?
@@robdee81 Definitely think something strange is going on and your case is the first I've heard where someone has been able to tell the tale of going in the wrong direction in such a scenario as this - fascinating! By all means send the link, very sad it was a school friend. Be safe.
Hi,
Since the incident
have you checked your body for strange marks/scars?
Or for two small holes close together (bit like a spider bite)?
Having survived my youthful misadventures and more than one drunken ramble ...I have to say the odds of a young man going over the rail more often than other groups is likely. But there is a definite problem with simply writing off incidents as misadventure too quickly.
Simlair cannals along simlair routes don't have the same high body count though .
You would think they would have simlair death tolls
Just having similar numbers of canals etc wouldn't result in automatically having the same death rates. There are a lot of factors... How close the canals are to bars/pubs/various distribution point for recreational intoxicants of any/all kinds, how hard it is to get out of a canal once your in it, how cold the water is,how fast the water is, how much debris there is to get tangled up on. Statistics are tricky little bastards if you overlook one factor the final result is crap..........................................................................................................Now even with factors that increase the likelihood some poor sod finds his way into the canal. When you get radically higher numbers someone should have a damn close look at all the factors, and all the incidents and not write anything off as "Just drunken misadventure" something is causing the spike and someone need to take it seriously.
@@wbnc66 This reminds me of my cousin's death. The family took a year or so to come to terms with it. He seemingly walked into a lake while drunk and died. People said all kinds of stuff about it. "He hadn't had that much to drink." "How was he unable to get out?" "Why did he drown in shallow water?"
But the facts? He'd been sitting in a chair drinking. No one really knows how much he'd had when he got in. No one saw what happened because it was dark. His buddies were sleeping nearby, but either heard nothing or just didn't wake up. There's no sign anyone else was there between when he was last seen alive, and when people realized he was gone. It took a few days to find his body since it wasn't floating on the surface.
Best guess as to what happened? He was just drunk enough that he wasn't thinking clearly. I mean, a moonlight swim alone? That's asking for trouble. The best guess is that he fell over and panicked and tried screamed while under water. Then drowned because he just inhaled a cubic foot of lake. Anoxia set in before he could right himself, and no one was there to help since they were all asleep.
It's weird, and strange, but not supernatural, or murder.
@@marhawkman303 Sadly thats happened more than once in my hometown. Thre is a large manmade lake with lots of little islands all about.
Some people go out to the islands, get a bit drunk, and fall in... Or someone goes to answer the call of nature after their freinds have turned in...and they end up in the water.
I have spent more than one sweaty one hundred degree day trudging up and down that lake dealign with copperheads, yellowjackets, and blackberry bushes. Hoping someone had taken a side trip and not told anyone where they went...instead of being at the bottom of that lake.
Unfortunately the story is pretty standard, a bit drunk, a bit careless, into the water....
@@wbnc66 Copperheads, yellow jackets, and blackberries? heh, sounds like Lake Ouachita. (and probably half the SE US)
We already know his identity. Lewis Brindley. After the Manchester pushings, he moved his grim work to Bristol
How do you know?
Literally clicked on this video to find a fellow yog
Fear the Pusher, the menace in the turtleneck sweater...
Glad I wasnt the only one about to say xD
Ah a man of standards
A number of males have been found in canals in Blackburn, Lancashire too! One of my two daughters friends, was found a few years ago and the police said it was purely a case of misadventure! No-one agrees with this, however! We all think something untoward happened that night, and someone is out there getting away with murder! It's really troubling! 😢
I’m sorry for your loss ma’am
There was mysterious young males drownings in France too, i don't know if it was in the 2000's or this very decade, but most of them found themselves alone at one point of a night out, intoxicated and drowned... Weird...
Manchester is a depressing city.... Read about these stories sometime ago
Not the first time Manchester has had a serial killer...
my home town, it's a brilliant city.
unt moron
@Gaz 00 shit manc then ain't ya.
ishe nicole name me one city that hasn't had a serial killer?
@Gaz 00 name a better city in the uk?
Freaking love this channel. Keep up the good work
Me 2 John Papas 👍
for a minute there, i thought you were talking about the canal instead of channel
@@miltonedwin8237 lol
Your picture is terrifying... imagine running into this guy along the canals at night lol
I work as a night guard along a section of canal in the US. There's a university nearby. I see a lot of drunk people walking along the edge of the water. In over two years, I have yet to see anyone fall in just because they were drunk. A bunch look like they will, and some probably do somewhere down the line, but it has yet to happen in my area.
I agree. My town in ireland is full of canals and waterways and it basically never happens. Usually it's suicide if someone goes in the river...
What is really creepy about some of the US drowning cases that some of the men found in the water weren't in the water the whole time they were missing. It freaks me out tbh.
Also in the US cases many of the victims had to walk UPHILL to the water where they were found. I would think being drunk you would stagger downhill away from the water, also there seems to be a tendency to target good looking, aliethcitc men.
When I used to work nights, I would come home in the early hours of the morning and drop on to the canal for convenience. People had warned me about the Pusher, but although I was extremely wary, I always thought what are the chances of him being on THIS stretch of miles of canal ? It was always pitch dark, deathly silent and eery on there and anyone could have stepped out from the bushes. I would have shat myself. So, imagine my surprise and obvious shock when one day a nebulous, black figure started to take shape in front of me about 50 or so yards up ahead. I couldn't make out what it was at first, but as I drew closer it seemed to be moving away. As I was on my bike it didn't take long for me to catch up with them. And as I closed in I was absolutely horrified to see that it was a young lady. Very attractive and would you believe listening to a walkman ?? I was so shocked that the words just fell involuntarily out of my mouth. "Luv, are you not scared coming down here ? You must be mad !"
Normally I would have been too shy to have voiced my opinions like that, but I think it was just the sheer shock. She assured me that she wasn't scared and didn't seem a bit concerned that a strange man had just pulled up alongside her in the dark on a lonely canal. Oh....my....God.
I saw her numerous times after that in the early mornings, but after a second failed attempt at dissuasion, I had to accept that she wasn't going to listen to anyone. So I would just politely pass her and let her get on with it. Always vigilant of anyone else I might meet up ahead that might present a danger to her. And there were plenty. Some very dodgy looking characters. She would have been a sitting duck.
I won't say where it was, for obvious reasons, and if anyone else has encountered her, please don't identify the location, but for all I know she is still doing it.
Crackers. Absolutely crackers.
She could be the pusher.
I Live in a very safe upper middle class suburban subdivision bordering city limits (woods, walking trails, a couple of small man made lakes, open fields, a BMX track, alot of new home construction) and I absolutely love walking late at night and listening to this Channel actually and or the sounds of coyotes owls etc. it's well lit, most all of the homes have sophisticated security camera systems about, I'm often not the only one out, and I have a large dog agressive to strangers and yet I never ever walk with my headphones in outdoors! Even during broad daylight on the well populated portion of the trails which are walked by nearly everyone around here with their strollers and dogs, I feel its just too obstructive to my hearing. Hell it could be an animal, a car, a person, you name it, they all could potentially pose a startle or a threat if unable to identify and hear. I obviously don't venture out into the unlit wooded portions of the trails after dark that would be a hazard for lighting reasons alone. My city is extremely low crime, we see random homicides or assault crimes here almost never but living in a large city you'd never catch me at night alone that way at all much less with headphones
The police know what's going on, some where put it in to the water post mortem, hence the unusual 28 open verdicts. Some had no water in the lungs.
It's happening everywhere.
What a terrible supervillain. He fights like a third grader.
Pretty effective tactics apparently.
And his own theme song "pusherman"
Yet he ain't been caught
like most killers, picking off the weak and vulnerable...most likely a reflection of hiself ;) in his/her head he/she is poor hard done by insecure numpty who only feels powerful pushing drunk people in canals....mummy/daddy issues for sure, its classic behaviour of a weak minded moron
@Oggy Is anyone allowed to own a gun there? If not, maybe it's time to change the laws. If you have no defense, you're a sitting duck! We (USA) will die fighting for our right to own/carry.
"is there some syndrome that causes them to disregard the dangers that await them?"
Er yes, it's called alcohol.
The problem is not alcohol itself, the problem is a society of idiots like you who say and do things without thinking first who require alcohol to be forgotten, TheMarlinspike: Ask The Gods.
LMAO right?
Im from suffolk. I remember one time several years ago I went out to Ipswich for a night out and I did get drunk. I remember me and a friend went out together (we did pre drink) and we entered a club in the middle of town. The last thing I remember was going to get a round at around 12pm. Next thing I remember is waking up on the edge of a pond at the other end of town. The pond was square shaped, had a fence around the perimeter about 12 ft high maybe higher and had a locked gate. There are several weird things about this. When I woke up it was like a blanket of warm around me, i could feel the heat coming off me even my legs which were in the water were hot. It was late December and starting to frost over and all I had on was a shirt and jeans. Also how the hell did I end up in there. I can't remember how I got out. I remember walking through the pond which was waiste deep but not getting out. And I rember coming out near the sainsbury on the a1214. I can't find where the lake is on Google maps and I even tried to retrace my steps. I'm from the country so I don't know town all that well but I remember the place being close to the sainsburys.
All I had with me was my wallet my phone case and battery cover, my car keys were gone(always careful with them) and my phone was gone. I finally walked back to my mates house. It was 6:30am. I was drenched and freezing cold. He said all he remembered was that one minute I went off to get a round then the next i was gone. Its never happened before or since it was pretty weird
Murder attempt by water spirit. The heat was an attempt at stopping the shock of the cold water from bringing you out of your trance. Something or someone was watching over you or you wouldn’t be here today.
Your drink was "Spiked". What need to ask is why?
There's no good reason to dismiss so many cases as accidents, especially when there's a surviving victim saying otherwise. It actually reminds me of a case that happened in my hometown in Wisconsin.
A lifeguard was found dead face up in the creek. This creek is dangerous to kids because the current is stronger than you'd expect from such a small body of water, but I went in it as a teenager (I would have been roughly 5'2" tall at the time) and it only came up to me knees. There's no way a lifeguard drown it, but that was the official report. It was only many years later that the police admitted the drowning story was a lie, and that they were instructed by the FBI to make up a cover story so the killer wouldn't know they were onto him. The killer was a gang member who had come from Chicago and the FBI had been after him because of a previous case. Eventually he was arrested and (I think) convicted for at least one murder in addition to that of the lifeguard.
I'm from Madison WI. Wondering where this was and the name
As always you seem to be the only one to be both respectful of the families, the victims & the stoey itself keep up the good work look foward to more bedtime stories
To be honest i LOVE his channel, but i'd much prefer to just get the story/facts and not have to listen to the obligatory "our hearts go out to X" simply for the now universal fear of "offending" someone. Of COURSE if youre a human being you feel sympathy for murder victims, those who take their own lives or whatever tragedy befell the people/person in the story, but does it need to be stated repeatedly and at LENGTH in whats become damn near EVERY video? whatever, not going to change, and now i'm a monster.
@@dirt0133 na, I don't see you that way.
There are "people" out there that go hunting for loners, in order to get their "jollies" from. Whether it's shoving you into a canal or giggling in the darkness to scare you.......you should always be prepared for anything.
I live in glasgow and there is a similar situation happening young men between late teens to mid 20s being found drowned in local canal system
Cool story on the Manchester pusher I have lived 5 minutes from canal since I was a kid am now 40 and yes it is a creepy place and can be a very dark place as well...
Do you push people?
DUN DUNNN DONEEE.
One of the best stories yet. Something fucky is definitely going on.
fucky?
@@kernom749 yup legit term "fucky"
(vulgar) messed up, awful, horrible quotations
An adjective for something that isn't functioning properly, or something that is not quite right.
@@EggBear Fair enough! i will try to use the word more often. Thanks for the lesson!
Sounds like the Manchester cop's are a bit on the lazy side.
@Legend Of Cretacia "Asian"
We all know what it means in the UK
Cool Hand “oh, his body has been mutilated and he has severed limbs...” “oh ok, seems we have an unexplained”
@Legend Of Cretacia lol good for them, at least smoking weed is healthier than drinking
Lazy, inept and corrupt I'll give you an example, a friend of the family is Moderately-Severely Autistic, some local youths were basically Extorting money from him daily (we reckon in total they took around £2500 off him over two years) eventually his mother noticed something wasn't right and he told her what was happening, of course the police were immediately contacted, despite promising to send out an officer a week went by, his mother eventually complained to the IPCC and received a phone call at 11pm from the inspector of the local police station who basically told her she should "carefully consider" her complaint and made thinly veiled threats pertaining to her son and his status as a vulnerable adult, he has since had to move to be with relative sin France due to Police inaction at considerable Monetary and emotional damages to the family.
@@88HEATHENWOLF WOW! I'm sorry to hear that, it sounds vaguely like LAPD . I hope that young man is now living some place safe where no harm can come to him any more.
I remember watching a program about the pusher last year on Channel 4. Definitely think that there’s a killer on the loose and don’t believe they are accidental deaths
I live in Huddersfield and we had a few incidents like this, I no longer go on walks down the canal alone.
Whilst living in NYC we had a homeless man who would push pregnant women into traffic. My boss, ex-Green Beret, saw him about to push this lady and he grabbed him up, I mean UP off the ground and held him like that until the NYPD arrived. I remember everybody applauding my boss and him saying, "I just did what was right and fair." He was a great boss. I think the dude was shivved in Rikers because no one messes with women or children and on top of that a pregnant women? Forget about it. They were probably picking straws while waiting for the transport from downtown to see who would get the honor of shivving the dude as soon as they put him in general population.
It just occurred to me that if the police really believed these were drunken fools going through laphazard barriers and drowning... the Nanny State would have put up new barriers.
'Nanny'. Who but a ridiculous Tory toff (Rees-Bogg for example) has any experience with a nanny?! A typical right wing slogan to wind up people unnecessarily and keep their focus off thieving aristocracy, Tories and corporations and focus on rules and regulations that help people and save lives. "Oh it were great in the 60s when you could get your thumbs chopped off at work in the factory without mean old nanny state interfering".
But "the Nanny State" wouldn't try to catch a serial killer? This is easily explained by them being too cheap to do it.
Good Lord, this is horrifying! Maybe install some lights out that way to help keep this pusher away.
This channel is fantastic. Love your illustrations and how you don't sensationalize these stories, going about them in a rational manner. Always look forward to your next videos.
Wish you guys would do a show on the “axeman of New Orleans”
I haven't watched it yet...I work the graveyard shift and I wanna listen to this story while at work, so I get two horrors for one. For more pleasure.
The guy who screamed down the phone , that case is very suspicious !
This creeps me out , many years ago i was super drunk in a town next to Manchester, i was walking home along the canel and ended up in the water , i can remember blackness and swirling water and somehow struggled out to the bank and passed out. In the morning i awoke colder than ive ever been and was treated for exposure. A number of years later a friend of mine died under similar circumstances , he was found with drugs in his system but not enough to impair him the coroner concluded . I believe the majority are drunk young men taking a shortcut on the canel late at night and loose balance, but maybe a few are unusual.
My brother had a similar experience to yours. Only he was nowhere near Manchester, he was in Shrewsbury. He went out drinking with some friends in town one night, had a few pints, but not enough to get drunk, just a little tipsy. He said he didn't know what happened. One minute he was walking back to his hotel, the next he was in the middle of the River Severn almost drowning. He had no idea how he got there. It was as if he blacked out inbetween. A colleague of mine also died in the River Severn a few years before that. Also in Shrewsbury, out with his mates. CCTV showed him just getting up and leaving the club he was in. No reason for it whatsoever. He hadn't fallen out with anyone and didn't seem ill. He just got up and left without saying anything to anyone, like he was on autopilot or something. No one saw him again for two weeks. His body was found floating in the Severn just outside town. Shocked everyone...
Holy shit , this is so strange , i was asked to leave the club i was in and for god knows what reason i walked a mile down the canel in the wrong direction ( I always assumed i was just so drunk i made a mistake trying to get home) I was in a sort of daze and only came to my senses on hitting the water. Im sorry to hear about your colleague , it seems we have a real problem in the uk with young men drowning , my friend from school was only 31 , such a sad loss.
Been googling for canel deaths in my town and theres alot , even found an article about people believing in apossible pusher related to a spate of 6 deaths in samespot , newspaper article gave nickname Yorkshire dipper. Im getting out of this rabbit hole , i'll leave the creepy investigating to you! Love the channel btw.
Thank you! And sorry to hear about your friend. I wonder if anyone else has had this weird experience, would be an interesting question.
Indeed , infact i've been talking about this with my brother today and he mentioned how alot of water spirits in mythology are female and lure young men to there death , im not saying i believe that but its definitely interesting.
For whatever twisted reason, I immediately thought of "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa, and now the hook is on replay in my mind.
Ha. I was thinking pusherman by Steppenwolf.
Now I can't turn it off in my head. 🙄
Dammit man!
The downvote must be from the Pusher or their accomplices, quick, track their IP!
Or Manchester Police being called out as incompetent
Oh shit now there's 187 of them! Manchester is doomed
I can say as a manchester resident that they are very scary especially at night. Its also very very easy to see how someone could slip into it in parts. However the deaths are very suspect.
Very
My mum's cousins body was found in the canal in Sheffield (not far from Manchester ) in the 90's. They didn't know it was him until years later. Nobody knows how he fell in. I always thought it was foul play. Others have 'fallen' into the canal over the years. It's scary to think that they can't solve these possible crimes. I always avoid Manchester canals when I go to gigs there. The Manchester deaths are turning into something that people talk about but nobody looks deep enough into.
Maybe they could solve them, but just can't be bothered
Heck yeah! This will definitely make me feel better and sleep easy, with semester results due tomorrow.
It's wrong to build up expectations but I guess we fans kinda have developed this fascination for Bedtime Stories.
Keep it coming!
Thank you and have a good one!
Heck yeah? just say fuck yeah, like a normal person.
@@Aconitum_napellus It seems like you'd be astonished to find that there are many iterations of "something yeah" that are all relatively popular, "heck yeah" being one of them.
@@Aconitum_napellus fuck YeAh, agree with you on that!
Not loving how the police are handling these cases. Why are they so quick to file them away? Why put together a task force of undercover officers to parole the areas only to want the cases closed as quickly as possible? And label them as misadventure when there is direct evidence to the contrary? Too many questions.
Another interesting and informative video, well done lads. I watched a documentary about this on channel 4 about a year ago. What sparked my interest at the time was a series of similar incidents which have occured in Bath. There's been several incidents of young men (mainly students I think) who have drowned in the river Avon, that seem to have a similar M.O about them.
yes, I live in Bristol where it happened. We had something like 5 young men drown in the docks in as many months in 2017 . Many people quickly drew comparisons with the Manchester incidents. After the first few people drowned in quick succession there was obviously massive awareness and repeated warnings about drinking and walking near water late at night, so when the pattern continued it was hard not to think these were more than just accidents.
I'd forgotten about the incidents in Bristol. It's not that far between the two cities, especially by car. It certainly makes you wonder if something nefarious is going on. Apart from anything else all three of them are university towns too. @@finbarsneddon7822
I got chills at you mentioning Bath. I lived there in the early 2010’s, near some student accommodation and I can very clearly remember a young man being found not far away from my home at the time, in the river Avon, and that the police seemed very determined to push it off as a drunken accident. There was at least one student death a year, every year I lived there as far as I can remember. Didn’t hear about the Bristol ones but I can absolutely remember the ones in Bath.
....I get the impression that the police, in trying to quell fears about someone murdering people and shoving them into the canals, just dismiss deaths linked to the canal as "misadventure". Just doubling down on it to the point they aren't looking too deep into some of these cases.
How exactly does one sneak into a club soaking wet..? 😄
Yeah, hey its just sweat from dancing...lol
They don’t give a shit in Manchester
On the topic of water and mysteries, have you guys considered talking about the severed legs with running shoes that appear around Vancouver?
Here I am at 4am watching this before I sleep.
sounds like a great choice
Same but it's 11pm
Do you sleep next to a canal?
9:30 pm here sitting in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Me too bro
This channel is like The X Files, if they made a UA-cam channel.
No. No it's not.
@Blood Scust Top 10 videos and Chills does not count. Maybe the "alltime top 10:s" because they also cover conspiracies, events and objects in the conspiracy files series. Maybe a lot of "not so well known" channels cover these strange things in detail but bedtime stories is the finest of them all i bet.
Even the theme song is an X Files ripoff.
Taylor Davison .... Missing 411 and the work of David Paulides... now that’s real life X Files... I’m obsessed and fascinated by his work, fascinated by the facts that exist concerning the cases... there’s something strange going on...and David Paulides believes that something similar could be happening here in the UK
Except you know...GOOD.
In Bath there been about 12 deaths of young men in the river since 2009,most were students,all apparantly accidential...
Wow! I thought Lewis Brindley's only pushes people in Bristol not Manchester.
was looking for a comment about this lmfao
his terror truly knows no boundaries.
Thanks for covering these cases, who knows if it's one person or not but something fishy is definitely going on in Manchester.
The water in the artwork looks fantastic. It was entrancing to look at, which made me wonder if that had anything to do with some of these cases.
Lady in the lake?
Still don't know what happens in Manchester but I definitely know I'll stay away from rivers and canals when I'm drunk.
I work on Canal Street and the canal is on the opposite side of the road to my work front door. I remember when some of these events happened and we had to give the police all of our CCTV footage and watched our section of the canal get drained.
I cant stand when investigators refuse to look into things like this, that's how killers are able to stay free and keep killing. What would it possibly hurt to at least investigate a theory
They just want yo collect their wages and not have to do anything. The police are selfish bullies and don't give a damn about their jobs
@@SamuelBlack84 i just refuse to believe "police" are ALL like that. Its like joining a group of people and a few are assholes so you dont talk to anybody....sad for the close minded people who believe like this. The police and investigators are PEOPLE first who do this as their career. When a person becomes an officer thats not who they are its what they do ....and you cant possibly expect every single person to be a perfect police officer. And of course they collect their pay, dont you after putting your hours in...its not volunteer work
@@melissaevans1177 What I wouldn't give to be able to throw this pathetic world into the sun and silence all of its madness forever
Excellent work gents! The artwork made me feel as if I was on The Locks.
I walk these canals virtually every day and have done so for several years (don't panic I have a female Bruce Wayne). It would be easy to pop out and push someone into the water as there are knooks and crannies everywhere particularly where trams cross the canal. My dog has gone for males who have appeared out of nowhere, hoods up and blacked out! As for M/c police, it has recently been revealed over 80k, I think, crimes reported were not recorded. If this is the case we cannot expect them to investigate any crime thoroughly. 😔
As you say, may these young men RIEP 🕊🙏🏽
One of my friends mates was found in the canal 💔
their have also been numerous deaths in the canal towards Huddersfield which is only over the hill from Manchester.
So why have the police not tried baiting the scumbag by having a few well trained officers pretending to be drunk walking around canals?Even if they didn't catch the attention of the pusher they would still be helpful in the area to catch other low life's or provide assistance if needed for other incidents.
Or Pop some freaking cameras or better lighting (or both) around these areas.
They haven't got the money or officers to do any of the things you suggest
@@hannahdyson6391 Incorrect
Hey love your channel, I live in Northeast UK & been learning of mysterious deaths & serial killers in the UK for few years now & its really fascinating but scary how many people are killed that police know a lot about the case etc, there's also a lot of conspiracy around some deaths & disappearings, but it must be truly awful not knowing what happened so you can put your mind at peace, or even worse not having the person there to lay them to rest, but the people that just totally disappear with everything still at home car keys, clothes, money or appointments, etc they're the most mind boggling of them all & it's all over the world..scary place we live in now. Keep up the great work your doing & will look forward to your next video soon. XxX
They can't ALL be accidents, or misadventure, as police have suggested 😐😐😐
The police in England are a joke. Incase you haven’t heard, you should look into the massive child rape gangs and child prostitution organizations that have a grip on England right now. The cops aren’t do anything about it, nor are the cowardly people of that country. They are too controlled at this point. Funny how they let a word like “racism” separate them from their own children.
The third story with the guy on the phone to his mum, it's possible that he could have accidentally answered the call with his phone still in his pocket, or answered then simply forgotten about the call (not as ridiculous as it sounds if the person is drunk enough). Then the scream she heard would simply be him falling in the canal.
I think most of the drownings are due to accidents and mistakes but some of them seem very suspect and suggest someone's behind it
It's a brutally simple and terrifying way to commit murder, lure an already intoxicated victim to a remote stretch of the canal, shove them and keep shoving them in if they try and get out until they lose their strength and sink below the surface. There are a few people who've gone missing in York on the other side of the Pennines, most of them were last sighted by the river that runs through the city, where there are quite a few pubs and bars and where the waterfront is quiet, I talked to a waitress in York once and she said it was a common theory they'd fallen into the river after drinking too much. Having watched this video I have a very bad feeling about what might have happened to them and that if they did go in the river, it wasn't an accident
It seems likely that there either was or is at least one Pusher, perhaps there have been more who are copycats of the first one, the account given at the start certainly isn't an accident, someone made sure Tom went in and made sure he couldn't climb out, if it hadn't been for the sirens he would've been another victim
8:37 this seems like a possible behavior to watch. Hang around outside of bars until they find someone extremely intoxicated and lead them away.
Surely more than one victim would have been lucky enough to survive. Couldn't they just swim to the other side? Plus in England it only goes below freezing for a week or two each year.
@@viciousKev Which is what Reynhard Sinaga did.
I don't understand why this channel haven't blown up yet. You deserve more subcribers.
I want to suggest that you should do a story about The Diplomat Hotel here in the Philippines where apparition headless of priests, ghostly sightings of ladies in white robes and children spirits are reported to haunt and seen roaming on halls of the said hotel.
Very good and beautifully narrated as usual.
I’ve been waiting for you to do his one as I mentioned it to you last year I think. So similar to the lads in the US. All are either separated from their pals or are kicked out of the clubs or bars by bouncers. All usually found in the opposite direction and a long way to the one they would take if going home.
The book by David Paulides (sic) is very good. And I’ve been to Canal Street and it’s a smashing place. Very vibrant and busy.
Thanks for another great episode. 👍😃
Shivers ran down my spine reading your comment , many years ago i was kicked out of a nightclub in Huddersfield, i was hammered drunk , god knows what i was thinking but i ended up on the canel , which is the opposite of where i was living , like completely the wrong direction , i cant remember how but i remember hitting the water and the intense cold and blackness . Somehow i got out and within 10 seconds lost consciousness , i was found in the morning half dead and was treated for exposure. A few years later i lost a friend under similar circumstances.
robdee81 God, that’s horrible. What a mercy you survived. And I am sorry about your poor friend. I believe the chap who narrates these stories also lost a good friend in the same way. I seem to remember he mentioned it when I asked if he’d consider doing this story. 😔
Yeah i came very close to death that night , my friend damian was found with drugs in his system but not enough to significantly impair him said the coroner.
The initial picture was taken from a photo of Latchford locks on the Manchester Ship Canal unless I'm very much mistaken.
What I find appalling is that the police who seemingly "closed" the cases seem to be inept to be so dismissive.
Got a friend who is a police officer. When I mentioned the Pusher, he literally laughed out load. He says the pusher doesn't exist. People get drunk and fall in to the canals all the time. Fishing out two bodies a week is normal. When people fall into freezing water, often smacking their heads as well, they also tend to hallucinate. Hallucinations can include seeing a person or people standing at the bank of the canal.
Amazing channel.
Very interesting story this as I'm from England I'd heard about this a good while ago.
The lad screaming down the phone while chatting to his mother then silence and his body found drowned later is very strange.
I don't think its human.
Paranormal through and through.
He wasn't "chatting to his Mother" - all she heard prior to the scream was breathing for eight minutes, which is pretty inconclusive.
It could have been a 'pocket call', or he could have been too frightened to speak. He might already have discarded the phone - we just don't know, as it's all pure speculation.
One thing I'd be certain of though, (if the deaths are linked) it's a person, rather than anything "paranormal" - killing lone males, often in isolated areas, while making sure that they cannot escape from the water suggests a driven, motivated, intelligent and psychopathic killer. Perhaps even someone smart enough to differentiate between citizens and plain-clothes policemen - something relatively easy (though not always) in daylight, but extremely efficient in low light conditions.
See,
I would say this.
That possibly some ancient burial ground was disturbed during construction of the canal. And the spirit of the long deceased acts revenge on all who crosses his grave.?
However, this usually happens in a tight circle close to where deceased was buried.
(See Stockbridge bypass on BS here)
And this phenomena would've been going on for years.
Think it's too wide an area for this explanation.
You are right!
Here's another tidbit that's related to the Canals of Manchester.
Canal Street which is the LGBTQ nightclub stretch in the city center become so because the first letters on the street sign had eroded away, leaving the sign saying "Anal Treet".
That sounds like bollocks
You are a card
Lol.. get the fk outa here : )
I thought this was going to be a dark story of a wayward fabric salesman.
I thought it was about a Meth dealer.
I know a bloke from Manchester used to talk about a shadow who was pushing people off their bikes
Excellent you did the Manchester pusher!!! Back shortly!!!
Still waiting for the Hopskinville Goblins
It's coming :-)
@@BedtimeStoriesChannel Thanks for another great story for bedtime! Love Lisa x
I absolutely love this bedtime stories. The narrating is amazing and as far as I can tell the information is on point. Love Sundays now. Can't wait to watch the newest one
This case is as fascinating as it is horrific! All those poor victims it’s just unreal. What is going on?! very well made video with excellent research and amazing narration! More please 😀
I'm from England but I've not heard of this.
Jeff The Gigantosaurus Yeah you are Born in 1855 and you heard about springheeld Jack
I'm from England n ive nvr heard of it too
OK I've read a BBC report about it n the opening paragraph is the same as this one's so that's plagiarism 😂 ! Cud be true it's case by case
I'm from mcr n I've only found out about it now
Channnel 4 did a great documentary on it in 2016 (?), if I remember correctly.
As someone has said, nothing good can come from being away from the safety of home after 10 pm. Double that bad factor if a man or women frequents bars and entertainment venues at night.
So true I need to remember this!
I was at my sisters the other day drinking and just hanging out with her and her boyfriend. I had been there for about three to four hours and it was around 11pm. By this time I have to admit I was drunk. Her boyfriend Jason and I had gone outside to smoke and continue our conversation and it hit me I had to pee really bad so I asked him to hold my cig as I went inside. He said why don’t you just go piss over there by the side of the house and I was like okay. I went over there and was facing the forest. She lives in a neighborhood but it’s a really secluded neighborhood and really it’s just miles of forest around it. Again I was drunk and felt really warm and pleasant and just felt at ease. I started to piss and standing there I kind of had this weird compulsion to walk out a little bit into the woods. The forest absolutely did not look nice, it was dark and spooky. Though I just felt a warm nice presence from it like it was hugging me and inviting me in. I finished pissing and walked back to porch to talk more. It wasn’t till the next day thinking back on it that I felt it was odd. Something about that situation was not right. Yeah I was drunk and felt good but I really can’t shake that feeling of just wanting to walk a little bit in the woods. That’s just not me and not what I do lol. This seems like a really lame story but it’s just bugging me. Almost like my feelings and intentions were kind of manipulated. Is an evil presence sometimes felt as a nice presence?
Just be careful whenever you drink m8, take Care aswell
Yes, yes, yes!
Well I've loved creepypasta and have for years and years but I'm very sensitive to a narrator's voice and your voice is lovely and clear and the best voice with nice tones that i have heard. The content is refreshing and interesting. Personally i do prefer the cases to be newer say from the 70's onwards. So glad that i have found such a gem. Thank you
The admins should do The Amityville House in New York State. It is the most well known haunted house in the US, spawning several books and even blockbuster films. it would be perfect to showcase here.
Widely thought to have been a hoax
@@DK-cy5mt The murders that took place there are certainly not a hoax so I'm not sure wtf you are talking about
@@DK-cy5mt The murdering of an entire family by the eldest son who claimed a demon persuaded him to kill is not a hoax so I don't know wtf you are talking about
@@ontario360vr5 he killed them because he was a drug using arse with psychopathic traits, nothing to do with demons, get a grip
@@DK-cy5mt all baseless and unconfirmed accusations, besides what about the family that bought the house and moved in after the murders? Did they not abandon the house, leaving all their personal belongings behind after only spending 28 days in that house, claiming it was haunted? I guess they were drug addicted psychopaths too huh lmfao
The police in the UK are way too busy policing social media to be bothered solving real crimes.
Cant wait to watch later while heading to bed. Btw my phone played ever episode (podcast version) while I slept last night. Woke up on episode 4...I do this all the time
You're the most underrated channel on UA-cam. You pick the most amazingly head scratching cases, and present them in an amazingly kind and respectful way to the victims and their families.
There was a strange 411 case near here in N.M. where a father and daughter in the Malpais, or badlands, who disappeared on a fathers day hike, some years ago. Then suddenly their bones were found in an area that had been repeatedly searched in the ensuing years, just mere feet off the path. Where were they? How did both die? Why didn't one go for help? It would be an intresting case for you to look into. In the meantime, please keep up the amazing work. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Heat can kill quickly and can cause loss of fluids which can lead to incapacitation and even hallucination.
@@Greatanotherchannel Yes, but they were found in a well traveled area that had been searched multiple times in the ensuing years, and then suddenly their bones show up?
@@ladonamariposavigilis6447 Maybe they were found there because someone did not look properly to begin with.
@@Greatanotherchannel I appreciate your insights, but there were massive searches utilizing dogs, searchers on horseback and air support. And these are the Malapies, or volcanic badlands. Anything that doesn't belong there jumps out at you.
Don't take this one down! I save these for bedtime
What do you mean about this being taken down?
Which one was taken down?
@@illyrian44 Spirits of Devil's Pool. It was taken down for a week because they had posted it early.
When I read the Manchester pusher,b where I'm from I'm thinking this is a Manchester big Time drug dealer.
Reynhard Sinaga's Flat in Montana House is directly above the River Medlock which runs into the Canal. What if some of the victims died through overdose and he just dump them literally out of the window or balcony.
I once went down the Smiley Face rabbit hole... very scary stuff. ..and compelling.
Awesome, something to watch later before bed. Keep it up bro. Also you should do a video on the Philadelphia Experiment
Yes! I love Bedtime Stories. Love everything, about this channel. From introduction opening, to the eerie creepy narration of the stories. Stay, awesome!
True.. Brilliant narration presentation stories..
love this channel content, I never heard of the Manchester pusher or bridgend hangings until I watch these videos. keep up the good work guys
Just buried a friend who disappeared weeks ago. Was found in a canal in Amsterdam. You just freaked me out.
Your illustrations and sound design remind me of my favorite game, Thief. They're very effective in setting ambiance and mood. Keep up the good work!
How can cops ignore CCTV footage showing two men going in and only one returning, not even questioning the man even when the victims body is found?
Love your Channel and love your artwork especially. Cool how you make the water move in the drawings. And I love your voice. Subscriber from California🖒
Of course I live in Manchester and stumbled upon this video at 2 in the morning